Oricon has published its music sales rankings for the first half of 2010, and for the second year in a row, Arashi held the #1 and #2 singles with "Troublemaker" (688,000 copies) and "Monster" (654,000 copies). Only Pink Lady and Hikaru Genji have achieved #1 and #2 simultaneously before, but Arashi is the only one to do it in consecutive years.
AKB48 held the #3 and #5 spots with "Ponytail to Chouchou" (577,000) and "Sakura no Shiori" (381,000), while KAT-TUN's "Love yourself ~Kimi ga Kirai na Kimi ga Suki~" landed in between them (440,000 copies).
On the albums chart, Namie Amuro led the way with her "PAST < FUTURE" (566,000). FUNKY MONKEY BABYS, TVXQ, and Ikimono Gakari were not far behind.
In DVDs, Michael Jackson's "THIS IS IT" topped the rankings with 789,000 in sales. Arashi was #2 with their "ARASHI Anniversary Tour 5x10" (688,000).
The Top 50 rankings in each category can be viewed at the Oricon website.
Wow, I don't know a single song from those listed.
I got so disconnected from popular japanese music nowadays... guess I'll have a lot to listen during the summer, though I have absolutely no interest in those boybands.
H!P didn't even make it in the top 50 for anything (I didn't chack about DVD's though).
Hmmm....but I can't say I'm not surprised...their popularity has been going down it seems...
Sorry to offend anybody, but why is KE$HA there (in top 50 for albums)??
And I didn't know Shia LaBeauf (or however you spell his name) had songs/ or a DVD, I can't remember what category... unless I read the katakana wrong since I was just skimming.
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